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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
Boris PasternakRead
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Isadora DuncanRead
Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon.
Graham SwiftRead
May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.
Swami VivekanandaRead
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiRead
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
Salman RushdieRead
A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.
Paramahansa YoganandaRead
All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.
Simone WeilRead
Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah
Ibn Qayyim Al-JawziyyaRead
How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.
Mahatma GandhiRead
The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.
Cindy GallopRead
Look, I want to love this world _x000D_ as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get _x000D_ to be alive _x000D_ and know it.
Mary OliverRead
This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits - one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.
ChanakyaRead
In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We saw that in this world there was no need for armies; peace, justice and liberty were so common that no one talked about them as far-off concepts, but as things such as bread, birds, air, water, like book and voice.
Subcomandante MarcosRead
There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert.
Leslie FiedlerRead
The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.
John OwenRead
Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe.
RumiRead
Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
H. L. MenckenRead
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
Thomas ReedRead
And the dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face... and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace. Then why do we keep strangling life wound this Earth, crucify its soul. Though it's plain to see, this world is heavenly. We could be God's glow... Heal the world.
Michael JacksonRead

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